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Updated: When Gem Tied the Nuptial Knots

Posted By: adminon: May 17, 2022In: SpectacleTags: Anselm Akele, Authoritarianism, Gem, NANSNo CommentsViews:
Updated: When Gem Tied the Nuptial Knots

“We” seem to be unable to get out of the excitement about Gem Akele’s wedding last Saturday, manifesting, for instance, in the insistence that pictures of the husband were... Read more

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Writing Corruption: Kole Shettima and the Challenge of Consolidating Generational Exceptionalism in Nigeria

Posted By: adminon: February 16, 2022In: People in ActionTags: ASUU, Femi Falana (SAN), MacArthur Foundation, NANS, Panadol, Prof Attahiru Jega, WINNo CommentsViews:
Writing Corruption: Kole Shettima and the Challenge of Consolidating Generational Exceptionalism in Nigeria

This piece contends that there is a challenge of consolidation of the exceptionalism that can be argued for the designers, ideologues, activists, hand clappers and other minders or protagoni... Read more

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Salihu Lukman As the Exit of a Fall Guy

Posted By: adminon: January 18, 2022In: SpectacleTags: APC, Enterism, GCAP, Jigawa Talakawa Summit, NANS, NGF, PDP, Prof Raufu MustaphaNo CommentsViews:
Salihu Lukman As the Exit of a Fall Guy

To the extent that he is a former president of the National Association of Nigerian Students, (NANS) in the heydays of the radical nationalist platform, Salihu Lukman fits into the category... Read more

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A Critical Celebration of the Vocation of Dissent in Nigeria

Posted By: adminon: November 21, 2021In: FlashbackTags: #EndSARS, Aba Women’ riot, Bishop Ajayi Crowther, Christopher Sapara-Williams, CLO, Decree 2, Herbert Macaulay, Iva Valley, Kanmi Ishola Osobu, Kitoyi Ajasa, NADECO, NANSNo CommentsViews:
A Critical Celebration of the Vocation of Dissent in Nigeria

By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu (PhD) The week when the Justice Doris Okuwobi Judicial Commission of Inquiry into the Lekki Massacre and the #EndSARS uprising in Lagos of October 2020 submitted its... Read more

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Creative Leadership Or An Early Warning From the ‘Leaders of Tomorrow’?

Posted By: adminon: October 16, 2021In: SpectacleTags: Early Warning, NANS, SUGNo CommentsViews:
Creative Leadership Or An Early Warning From the 'Leaders of Tomorrow'?

This cover picture should attract critical perusal from the centres of power.  Is it evidence of creativity in leadership or an Early Warning from those the society loves to refer to as lead... Read more

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For Miss Ashezi Abashi, It Will Be a Different June 12 on June 12, 2021

Posted By: adminon: June 04, 2021In: SpectacleTags: ABU Zaria, June 12, NANSNo CommentsViews:
For Miss Ashezi Abashi, It Will Be a Different June 12 on June 12, 2021

The tie to June 12 is coincidental but significant. Her dad, the late Chris Abashi, a former president of the defunct National Association of Nigerian Students, (NANS) fought with all his st... Read more

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Tracking Emma Ezeazu’s Pro-Democracy Footprints

Posted By: adminon: May 20, 2021In: SpectacleTags: ABU Zaria, CAPP, CLO, NANS, SAP, UNNNo CommentsViews:
Tracking Emma Ezeazu’s Pro-Democracy Footprints

The apparent season of remapping of signifiers of radical activism shifted on Tusday, May 18th, 2021 to the late Emma Ezeazu, a former president of the National Association of Nigerian Stude... Read more

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17 Years of Chris Abashi’s Passage Today

Posted By: adminon: March 15, 2021In: People in ActionTags: Lenin, Mrs Cecilia Abashi, NANS, SCONNo CommentsViews:
17 Years of Chris Abashi's Passage Today

It is exactly 17 years today that one of the earliest presidents of the defunct National Association of Nigerian Students, (NANS), Barrister Chris Abashi died. That was March 15th, 2004. The... Read more

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Cde Didi Adodo in the Archives of Radical Nationalism in Nigeria

Posted By: adminon: January 18, 2021In: People in ActionTags: BUK, Mungo Park, NANS, NLC, NTA, OTUWA, UNIBEN, UNIJOSNo CommentsViews:
Cde Didi Adodo in the Archives of Radical Nationalism in Nigeria

In the countdown to the burial rites of Comrade Didi Adodo, a picture capturing his high point of nationalism makes a revealing reading. Image experts would churn out thick details from the... Read more

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What Didi Adodo Reminds Left Politics in Nigeria As He Bows to Covid-19

Posted By: adminon: January 12, 2021In: People in ActionTags: BUK, NANS, NLC, Prof Festus Iyayi, UNIBENNo CommentsViews:
What Didi Adodo Reminds Left Politics in Nigeria As He Bows to Covid-19

There are signposts of a tendency sense of loss in the demise of Didi Adodo, a trade unionist who was claimed by no other nightmare than Covid-19 early Tuesday, January 12th, 2021. The tribu... Read more

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